Hansgeorg Schmeiser began his music studies with Gottfried Hechtl at the Academy of Music in his hometown of Graz. He followed this by studying with Alain Marion in Paris, and Wolfgang Schulz at the Vienna Academy of Music, from where he graduated with distinction in 1982. His busy program of solo and chamber music has taken him all over Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea, where he regularly gives masterclasses. Schmeiser makes regular guest appearances with the Vienna Philharmonic, and has been a member of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra for many years.